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I The Battalion may STATE & LOCAL Tuesday, May 2,1989 3 New residence hall will provide Christian enviroment By Sherri Roberts STAFF WRITER A Christian residence hall will provide Texas A&M students a spe- dalized housing option in Fall 1989 and join the list of new residence halls that includes an honors co-edu- cational hall and University Tower. Sponsored by ACTION — Amer ican College Teams in Other Na tions — the hr.!! "‘’iM Mature Bib!** studies throughout the week and will provide students the opportunity to participate in summer mission pro jects. ACTION officials are in the proc ess of securing a building within three miles of the A&M campus as the hall site, ACTION Director Dan Cummins said. A shuttle bus service will be available to transport stu dents to campus. The cost to live in the hall, which will house between 100 to 200 stu dents in the fall, will be comparable to that paid by students living on- campus. Although residents in the hall will be required to attend hall Bible stud ies, which will take place an average of two nights a week, the hall’s pro gramming will be secondary and supplemental to students’ education. “We are teaching these students another area of learning,” Cummins said. “They can learn more about the Bible and interact with people who have similar interests. They Can go to a secular college and get the Bi ble program.” Two to four permanent advisers and various guest advisers will live in the hall, conducting Bible studies and providing counseling to stu dents. The optional summer mission projects will allow students to apply their degrees in a mission field situa tion, he said. Students who partici pate in the projects will teach farm ing, ranching, business and other skills to people in various countries. In the hall’s first mission project, “Aggies for Africa,” students will teach members of the South African Zulu tribe various skills, Cummins said. Cummins said, to his knowledge, the hall is the first Christian resi dence hall servicing a secular cam pus. The concept for the hall was con ceived by ACTION officials about three years ago. Since that time, vol unteers, including lawyers and real estate agents, have researched the economic feasibility of the hall. “We’ve done our homework and we know it will work from a business ( aspect,” he said. “It’s time to put our vision into reality.” Senate addresses AIDS, commends ‘care givers’ Oilman tries to sway House from shareholders rights law AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate approved a resolution Monday commending people who care for AIDS suf ferers. Sen. Craig Washington, D-Houston, sponsored a res olution commending “educators and care givers on the front lines of the battle against AIDS,” or acquired im mune deficiency syndrome. AIDS results from a virus that destroys the body’s ability to fight infection. Washington said AIDS “knows no ability to discrimi nate ... it will attack anyone. “All of us realize that in this session we have to ad dress the question of AIDS,” said Washington, a mem ber of the legislative task force on AIDS. Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena, said 30,000 Texans had gathered in Austin over the weekend “primarily to raise public awareness about the AIDS initiative, to ad dress and call public attention to what is obviously the most critical human health crisis facing our state, the United States of America and the world at large. “There is no nation on earth that is immune or has any wall up that will protect it from the AIDS virus,” Brooks said. He said his Senate Health and Human Services Com mittee should have an AIDS bill ready for debate by no later than early next week. “I hope, and I believe, we will emerge from this ses sion of the Legislature with some initiatives that will be worthwhile, that will be desirable and will be effective,” Brooks said. “And it’s going to take all of us working to gether. “We must put aside a lot of our personal biases, or the buzz words of the past — lay all that aside” — and recognize that AIDS “is a human health issue, that it must be dealt with as a human health issue. “We have to treat it just as we would any other fatal disease that would enter our borders or manifest itself in this world,” he added. i ss der .If [ d y Station sponsors A&M radio show Students who want to find out what’s going on in Aggieland can tune in to the Star 92 Aggie Bulletin Board, a program broadcasted at 12:50 a.m. Sunday through Thurs day during the Star 92 Aggie Hour. Bruce Gilbert, the new program director at radio station KTSR, said he thinks the program will be ap pealing to A&M students. “I think the Aggie Hour is a good idea because this is a college town and students are usually up studying - late.” Gilbert said. Gilbert said during the Aggie Hour students can participate in games and student discussions. “During this hour, disc jockey Dan Rush asks an Aggie trivia ques tion and the winner is awarded a piz za,” Gilbert said. “The main focus is student discussions. We encourage students to call in with problems or events that are happening at A&M.” Gilbert encourages students to send information to be publicized during the Aggie Hour. “We usually get our information from The Battalion’s ‘What’s Up’ column and from information that Rush gets from people calling in,” Gilbert said. “We want students to participate more by sending infor mation on upcoming events.” AUSTIN (AP) — Corporate take over specialist T. Boone Pickens tes tified Monday against proposed leg islation aimed at making hostile takeovers of companies more diffi cult. Pickens, an Amarillo oilman, said the proposed Texas Shareholders Rights Law is “clearly a pro-manage ment” bill that would protect com pany executives at the expense of stockholders. “I’d junk this stuff and start all over again,” Pickens told the House Business and Commerce Commit tee. In a news conference later, Pick ens, who is considering a bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomi nation, said, “The last thing Texas needs with its economy the way it is is to entrench management.” But Bryan F. Egan said the law will protect stockholders from cor porate raiders — restricted by simi lar laws in other states — who will “see Texas corporations as one of the unprotected species that can be taken over on the cheap.” Egan is a member of the Texas Business Law Foundation, a nonpro fit corporation specializing in busi ness law and economic development. In hostile takeovers, corporate raiders buy enough stock to gain vot ing control of the company then of ten “bust up” the company, selling the assets for their own profit, while the remaining stockholders suffer, Egan said. Under the bill by state Rep. David Cain, D-Dallas, shareholders could limit the voting power of a person who purchases a huge block of stock. Should a change in control occur, the bill would place a 5-year mora torium on certain business combina tions between the person who ac quires control and the corporation. “If Texas does not act this session, you will see Texas corporations with publicly traded securities as a rapidly vanishing breed,” Egan said. A&M student injured in motorcycle collision An A&M student injured in a Friday motorcycle accident is in Intensive Care at Scott and White Hospital in Temple. John Edward Powell, a sopho more history major, was severely injured when his motorcycle col lided with another vehicle on Texas Avenue. Powell, 19, was going north on Texas Avenue near Southwest Parkway about 1:30 a.m. when his Honda collided with a Cadillac. The driver of the Cadillac, who police identified as Michael A. Cunningham of College Station, was turning his car left onto Texas Avenue from a private driveway. College Station police said Pow ell was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. He was treated at Humana Hospital for a concussion, a broken arm and a broken knee and transferred Fri day to Scott and White, where he was listed in serious condition, hospital officials said. Cunningham, 35, was arrested and charged with driving while in toxicated in connection with the accident. He was released from the Brazos County Jail Friday morning after posting a $500 bond. ear, An Invitation to Luxury* ♦♦ The Jewelry Express Card The Jewelry Express Card... Sheer Brilliance! 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